Guests 18 years or older are welcome to volunteer with our Environment Team, cleaning barns and completing farm chores.

Please click here to sign up for volunteer shifts.

Check-in with staff at the Visitor Barn gift shop at the start of the shift for waivers, T-shirts, and gloves, and to arrange your pick up.

Here's a list of common tasks so you know what to expect:

• Lifting heavy piles of manure into tall spreaders or dump carts

• Lifting heavy buckets of soiled bedding into spreaders or dump carts

• Using a variety of cleaning tools such as pitchforks, rakes, shovels, scrapers, brooms, etc

• Performing a lot of walking, bending and lifting

• Working in dusty conditions

• Working in all weather conditions

• Using push mowers, weed eaters, hedge trimmers, smaller gardening hand held tools

• Working on muddy, slippery, or uneven ground conditions

• Working in Isolation areas wearing ISO gear (pants, shirt, booties, and gloves)

• Working on smaller maintenance projects (painting barns, fence repairs, trail clean-ups)

Please note the Sanctuary Tour for Tiny House and Cabin guests is at 9 am each morning of your stay, so don’t miss it!

Thank you so much for your interest in helping with these important tasks! As a nonprofit organization, Farm Sanctuary’s work to rescue, educate, and advocate relies on generous support from individuals like our volunteers and our sanctuary guests.